When an electrical fire destroyed her grandparents, Hazel and Albert Church’s, summer house on Elk Lake in Clinton Twp. in 2009, all that was left of the original compound was Charlotte Iori's grandfather’s fishing boat.
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Judi Manley’s garden serves as a colorful, living record of her past. It’s not special to her just because of the hours of hard work she puts into her Clarks Green yard, but because it’s filled with pieces that come from different people in her life. For
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Rich and Ruth Mozeleski’s backyard looks very different today than it did in 1970. When the couple first moved into their Moosic house, all they could see when they gazed out of their kitchen window was tall, overgrown grass and several evergreen trees. F
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Dorothy Meyers’ myriad medical problems, which include fibromyalgia and arthritis, ensure that pain and discomfort are a constant in her life. But the Roaring Brook Twp. resident has found a miracle cure right outside her door — her garden.
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After a long, stressful day at work, Carla Preate knows no better place to retire to than her garden.
“You can just sit here and relax and zen out,” she said. “It’s my little haven, my refuge.”
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Stephen Senko can tell a story about almost every part of his backyard. He fell out of a giant maple tree and broke his arm as a child. His childhood handprints, along with his siblings,’ are still entrenched in the concrete patio.
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Dave Taylor is a man of many interests.
He hunts and fishes. He has a pilot’s license. He’s raised rottweilers and broken horses. He’s led tours of the Lackawanna Coal Mine. He even was a justice of the peace for a time.
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John Briggs’ doctor told him he did not need physical therapy after his heart attack and subsequent quadruple bypass surgery a year ago. The gardening Mr. Briggs does each day was therapy enough.
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Eclectic and ecumenical are apt descriptives of Dolores Worthington’s garden.
With its abundant perennials, partitioned sections, nods to Buddhism and Christianity and frequent — and welcome — animal visits, there’s plenty to take in and admire on the sprawling Covington Twp. property Mrs. Worthington shares with her husband, John.
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Marie Popovich’s Scott Twp. garden isn’t just a thing of beauty, it’s a relic of family history. The former owner of Montdale Farm Dairy with her late husband, Bill, Mrs. Popovich has spent decades caring for the 104-year-old grapevine
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Visitors know exactly what to expect from John and Janet Melnick’s garden the minute they arrive.
Wooden fenceposts surrounded by flowers greet them at the entrance to the couple’s Scott Twp. home, revealing the rustic, natural setting they will find throughout the shady expanse.
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Roses abound in Cheryl Wetherell’s Moscow garden.
With the assistance of her husband, Joe, Mrs. Wetherell has planted over 60 varieties of roses among other perennials in addition to an expansive vegetable plot in her garden which comprises nearly three-quarters of their one-and-a-half-acre property.
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Growing up at her lifelong Chestnut Street home in Dunmore, retired teacher Lucia Riggi watched her parents tend their narrow 50-foot tract of lawn with pride, but she always dreamed it could be more.
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Jack McGuigan’s South Scranton garden is his creative outlet and source of inspiration.
Filling a garden with a wide assortment of perennials, herbs and trees for aesthetic enjoyment may be enough for some, but Mr. McGuigan, an artist, photographer, sculptor and poet, makes his garden an extension of his artistic passion.
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When John Berry moved to Vandling five years ago he saw an opportunity — the 100-foot-by-100-foot lot that bordered his new home. “I am going to turn that into a park,” he said to his wife. “You’re crazy,” she replied.
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Barbara Dehaba’s South Scranton garden exists in a world apart from the surrounding neighborhood. Ms. Dehaba’s garden boasts a self-sustaining pond, a litany of perennials, a vegetable and herb garden, a stone walkway, and well-pruned bushes and shrubs.
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The cultivated landscape of Randy Gilson's low-maintenance garden blends into its natural surroundings by design.
A variety of hostas, grasses and ferns coat the sloping, shady backyard on Scranton's Whitetail Drive in a range of greens to create the perfect atmosphere for relaxation.
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Tony and Mary Curra moved to the Abingtons from their native Long Island, N.Y., nearly 30 years ago.
Along with them they brought a love of gardening that was instilled in them from a young age by their Italian grandfathers.
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Visiting the Taylor garden of Jack and Carol Nowacki feels a little bit like island hopping.
Enter the West Hospital Street yard from the side, and guests run right into a landscaped patch where some of the couple's nearly 20 varieties of shrubs and bushes thrive.
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For the most part, Susan Maslar's one-and-a-half-acre Fleetville property easily could be transported to the early 20th century. With its chicken coops and rows upon rows of produce, it's exactly the type of yard people relied on in pre-grocery store America.
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